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Zipper Lips (First Person), Emily May

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Not Alone, Naomi Worth

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Gifts From Mother God, Emily Felt

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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All Things Denote, Rachel Sumsion

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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The Women In The Wrong Uniform, Sarai Silva

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

It was past midnight when Dora Barrios and Betty Nuñez Zeiss stumbled upon José Díaz's beaten body--two stab wounds, broken bones, and severe facial damage. The girls alerted the neighbors, who rushed him to the hospital, but to no avail. In the following days, the Los Angeles Times published various articles about the murder of the twenty-two-year-old.

Abida Parveen, Katie Ashton

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Within Sufi Islam is a musical tradition called Qawwali, which blends Hindustani classical music with Sufi Islamic poetry. Already a bled of multiple religious elements, Qawwali is certainly not orthodox in its worship; nevertheless, it certainly works as a powerful form of religious worship through a combination of Hindu music Sufi poetry. Qawwals (Qawwali musicians) often know poetry in four or more different languages and have experimented with many Hindustani Ragas (musical traditions learned experimented with as musicians studying for a decade or longer).

Virtuoso, Stella Ottosson

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Through The Veil, Naomi Worth

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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“I Suppose An Island Dweller Should Expect It To Be So”: The Contradiction And Drama Of Maternity And Islands In Caleb’S Crossing, Shayla Frandsen

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

Islands have a long tradition of capturing human imagination and functioning as a space that nurtures both magic and mystery. As geographic locations, they seem to avoid easy taxonomy even while behaving easily categorizable: they exist as tourist fantasies separate from everyday landscape even while many operate as an othered land that is still “safe” enough to visit. They are isolated yet capable of nurturing strong cultural identity. They also act as autonomous entities while still being interconnected within larger natural structures, coastlines, and waterways. In these ways and more islands navigate as border spaces of inherent contradiction—contradictions which are …

Mary Ann Shadd Cary And Kit Coleman: The Shifting Public Memory Of Canadian Female Journalism, Josie Smith

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Susa Young Gates Award Essay

Honorable Mention

On June 30, 1855, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a free black woman from a prominent black family and editor of The Provincial Freeman (a black abolitionist newspaper printed in Chatham, Ontario, Canada) wrote the following to identify her own achievements in journalism: “To colored women, we have a word—we have broken the Editorial ice, whether willingly or not, for your class in America, so go to Editing as many of you as are willing and able.” Shadd Cary did indeed break the “Editorial ice” as the first black female newspaper editor in both …

Fruits Of Maternal Love, Simona Ershova

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Digital Painting

Me Too, Cidney Winterton

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Mixed media, 24 x 36 inches

Help, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Ana (A Work In Progress), Amanda Hellewell

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Life Giver Pantoum, Amy Griffin

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Yes ... But, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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From Divinely Equal To Violently Oppressed: Brutality Against Women In The Bible, Shana Clemence

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

The Old Testament tells us the first woman on earth, Eve, was created from the rib of the first man, Adam. To many, this symbolizes equality between the sexes. A historical theologian said, “to be formed from the side symbolically indicates equality rather than domination or subjection” (O’Loughlin, 1993). Wheelwright-Brown (2020) stated how the effect of mankind’s view of Eve’s brave choice to partake of the fruit of the tree of life had serious, harmful consequences for women:

There’s the effect it had on men, and the way they have been subtly influenced to perceive women and think of women. …

Broken Reflection, Jenny Carpenter

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

“B, grab me my napkin, why don’t you,” Jim says, leaning back into the plush, bloodred chair at Spanky’s. Spanky’s is hardly a dinner date—I mean, it’s a sandwich place.

But it’s what Jim wants. And what he wants, he gets.

Still, I hesitate, thinking about telling him to just snatch it up off the ground himself. I’m not his slave. The napkin’s right in front of him.

Twenty-Two, Amy Griffin

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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On The Inside: A Small Collection Of Poems, Lauren Moss

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Renaming The Peak: Investigating The Effects Of Changing The Name Of Squ*W Peak On Native Women And Public Perceptions Of Native American Culture, Hannah Dixon

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

In light of the rise in public social activism and language justice in recent years, concerns about the name of Squ*w Peak, a mountain point near Provo, Utah, have surfaced due to “squaw” being an offensive term for Native American women. Looking at the effects of the peak’s current name on Native women, as well as its effects on non-Native perceptions of Native women and cultures, shows the potential implications of a name change for the peak. This paper draws on a review of the term’s linguistic associations, studies on potential psychological effects of microaggressions, and research on other effects …

Mightier Than The Men, Sydney Springer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Love They Said, Elizabeth Marie Cox

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Women Of Life, Micaela Cors

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Watercolor

The Misrepresentation Of Women In Video Games, Abigail Warr

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

According to the most recent statistics, 45% of the people who regularly play video games in the United States are now female (Entertainment Software Association, 2021). The video game industry is no longer dominated by male consumers, and yet many times the female roles in video games still do not demonstrate the well-rounded, complex characters that female consumers may want. Instead, women in video games generally seem to display “emphasized femininity” by fulfilling female stereotypes in an unrealistic way (Dill & Thill, 2007). This emphasized femininity can be displayed by being oversexualized (Melzer, 2019; Summers & Miller, 2014), or by …

Attempting Cohesion, Angela Werner

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Acrylic, 18” x 24”

Within Reach, Catherine Marcheschi

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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I Don’T Surrender: An Anthem For Survivors Of Sexual Violence, Brittan Wawro

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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How To Be A Woman. A Pillar Of Light, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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What If We Remembered, Danielle Kemp

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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